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Fiction, In Flesh | David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for Flesh, his sixth work of fiction. The novel follows the life of a man shaped by quiet choices and chance encounters, written in Szalay’s characteristic style of precision and restraint. Exploring loneliness and the muted struggles of masculinity, Flesh captures the unease of contemporary life with striking clarity. (Image: AP)

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The Booker-Winning Book | Written in spare prose and spanning several decades, the novel traces the life of an emotionally detached man, Istvan, whose experiences are shaped by choices and events he only partly understands. This is Szalay’s sixth work of fiction. He was previously shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016 for All That Man Is. (Image: AP)

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